King Salmon, langoustine, popcorn, lime, roe

And this, my entree, was about as bad as it looks. The fish, by the way, was cooked perfectly (poached, I suspect). But that ugly plate epitomizes everything that is wrong with contemporary American cuisine. The plate is a fucking mess. Not only is it horribly composed but it’s also a horrid grab bag of tired culinary trends/cliches: Foam? check! Powder? check! Soup to be poured over for no reason? check! Popcorn? check! Grits? check! And none of it went well together. The popcorn and foam were pointless, the bisque (not pictured except for a little smear on the fish) was metallic and actively nasty, the grits were a sludge. That fish, simply paired with the trout roe and some properly considered greens would have been great. But no.